Michael Cohen
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And so none of it is true.
All 13 allegations raised against me were a lie.
I went and I saw the president in the Oval Office the very first time I received a request to appear before SIPC, the Senate Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
And I said, no.
I spoke to an attorney by the name of Jay Sekulow, who I received through Sean Hannity.
And he said, it's like an invitation to a wedding or a bar mitzvah or something like that.
You don't have to go.
I said, fine.
I typed out a response.
Thank you, but no thank you.
They then hit me with a subpoena.
And I said to the president...
eye to eye, same distance I'm sitting from you.
The only difference wasn't a Formica desk.
It was the Lincoln desk, the Resolute desk.
I said to him, sir, please shut this down.
Nothing good is going to come out of this.
These are a bunch of animals.
I'm telling you.
And the advice that he got from those that were around him